#Review
#Review
By: Omar (@siegarettes)
Platformers tend to have a certain rhythm to them. There’s a beat, an ebb and flow to movement. Inside My Radio takes that rhythm and makes it explicit. Actions are tied to the beat of the music, lose the rhythm and you’ll fail basic actions. It’s a hybrid that makes it unique in its genre, but also adds several complications.
by Dante Douglas (@videodante)
The Westport Independent is a 2016 game by Double Zero One Zero. It’s the first game they’ve launched on Steam and a valiant effort at that. The Westport Independent places the player in the position of a head editor at a small newspaper in country living in the shadow of a rapidly-ascending nationalistic party, in the final 12 weeks before newspapers are subject to a new, harsh regulation on what they can and cannot print.
By: RJ (@rga_02)
Nep Nep is no longer held back by the power of the cell. This time we get to see Neptune and co. shine in 8 GBs of GDDR5. Compile Heart’s Neptunia series has finally landed on the 8th generation of consoles, but will it offer anything new and exciting other than a fresh coat of paint?
By: Omar (@siegarettes)
If there’s one thing that keeps me coming back to ACE Team games, it’s their ability to channel aesthetics from all kinds of places into eye catching locations for digital violence. That’s still true in The Deadly Tower of Monsters, a top down action game that takes inspiration from B-movie special effects. It’s a fitting tribute; ACE Team games seem to occupy similar spaces among their peers, banking on the appeal of their art and design while leaving certain seams revealed.
By: Omar (@siegarettes)
With so many apocalypses going on in videogames, we’ve become friendly with the fall of humanity. It’s almost comforting to know the world’s end has come before you arrived. It takes the pressure off, what with all the times we’re asked to save it. Still, we rarely languish in the beautiful ruins, there’s always something urgent to pull you along. So that’s where The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human appears.
by Omar (@siegarettes)
Yakuza is probably the only series that can remain tonally coherent while moving between taxi driving, prison brawls, idol performances and detailed hunting games. Soaked in absolute melodrama, Yakuza 5 is just as much a soap opera as every game before it. And like those it has cities full of miniature stories, distractions and a sheer sense of density that makes it stand out in a year overrun with open world games.
by Omar (@siegarettes)
Dariusburst Chronicle Saviors is a game so wrapped up in the history of the series, that it’s impossible to start comprehending what it even is before taking in some of that history. The finale to the long running Darius shoot-em-up series, Chronicle Saviors is the fourth revision of the PSP entry Dariusburst. Dariusburst returns with it’s series trademarks of giant robot fish and an absolutely MASSIVE soundtrack by Taito house band ZUNTATA. Although coming off the dramatic changes introduced in Darius Gaiden and G-Darius, I was underwhelmed. Particularly missed were the opportunities to turn mid level bosses to your side, or capture enemies to use as weapons.
With that in mind, Chronicle Saviors operates as a dramatic remix of the original Dariusburst. Or rather, if the first revision was a remix, this one is a multi-disc set of remixes that has you reevaluating the original Dariusburst and puts it in line with the history of the series.
By: Paul (@MrHarkinian)
You would think that for game developers, taking a year break from an annual activity, would mean that their product has more time dedicated for improvement. Hence why annual titles, like the Call of Duty franchise, tend to be unremarkable. Having to churn out a game every year puts you on a tight schedule, where tough decisions have to be made in order to make the release date. This was the unfortunate case with the Need for Speed series. As a result, most of the series titles were less than stellar, save for Criterion Games Need For Speed Most Wanted (2012), although that game is basically Burnout Paradise 2.